# Questions about Tolkien's Foreword to LotR

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**Created:** [May 9, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-tolkiens-foreword-to-lotr/581259 "2011-05-09T12:21:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-tolkiens-foreword-to-lotr/581259/21 "2011-05-11T01:14:29Z")

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I thought he was saying:

“I know people will bring up the millers as an example of allegory. While it’s true that _I never liked the looks of the Young miller_, you can see I didn’t mean them as allegory because _his father, the Old miller, had a black beard, and he was not named Sandyman_.”

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**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-tolkiens-foreword-to-lotr/581259/22 "2011-05-11T12:31:24Z")

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What **Weedy** said.

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**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-tolkiens-foreword-to-lotr/581259/23 "2011-05-11T13:52:13Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Bah, _Leaf by Niggle_ is the allegoriest allegory which ever Al Gored.

But _LOTR_ wasn’t!

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